Some of the most compelling photographs from RFE/RL's broadcast region and beyond. (52 PHOTOS)
Photos Of The Week #51
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An Egyptian woman screams as she walks past soldiers standing guard in front of the Presidential Palace ahead of a planned demonstration by opposition supporters. (AFP/Marco Longari)
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People walk over a bridge in front of the chimneys of a city power plant in subzero conditions in Kyiv.
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The bodies of two female workers of an antipolio drive lie in the morgue of Jinnah Hospital in the Pakistani city of Karachi. Five vaccination workers have been shot dead in Pakistan since December 17. The immunization campaign has been suspended after the attacks. (Reuters/Akhtar Soomro)
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A view of snow-covered fields and villages in the Bhaderwah Valley of India, some 200 kilometers east of Jammu. (AFP)
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Taliban fighters stand handcuffed near their seized weapons as they are displayed to the media at the governor's house in Jalalabad. Nineteen Taliban insurgents were arrested by Afghan joint forces during an operation in the Bati Kot District of Nangarhar Province. (AFP/Noorullah Shirzada)
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Two women play in the snow in temperatures of minus 30 degrees Celsius in the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk. A severe cold spell has brought temperatures around 10 to 20 degrees Celsius lower than average across Siberia, according to media reports. (Reuters/Ilya Naymushin)
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Pigeons warm themselves on a metro ventilation shaft in central Moscow. (AFP/Kirill Kudryavtsev)
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An Orthodox priest baptizes an infant during a mass baptism of some 900 babies into the Georgian Orthodox Church in Tbilisi. (EPA/Zurab Kurtsikidze)
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A trumpeter plays from the Old Town tower above the traditional Christmas market in Old Town Square in central Prague. (AFP/Michal Cizek)
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A view of an eruption at Ecuador's Tungurahua Volcano from the city of Banos. (AFP/Agencia API)
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Participants launch Chinese lanterns during an event in Puebla, near Mexico City. Organizers hoped to break a Guinness world record by launching 16,000 lanterns, all of which were made by people with disabilities, according to local authorities. (Reuters/Imelda Medina)
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Emergency workers remove snow from around a car after a blizzard engulfed the western Ukrainian city of Brody, west of Kyiv, on December 17. Around 2,000 stranded vehicles were freed from the snow during the past 24 hours, according to the Emergency Ministry. (Reuters/Marian Striltsiv)
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Villagers mourn over the bodies of 10 girls between 9 and 11 years old who were killed by an explosion in Jalalabad, in eastern Afghanistan, as they were collecting firewood. (Reuters/Parwiz)
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A truck loaded with cauliflower drives toward a market in Cairo, Egypt. (Reuters/Khaled Abdullah)
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Women in traditional dress are seen at an international film festival of the CIS countries, the Baltic states, and Georgia in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. (RFE/RL/Alia Suranovа)
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People bow in front of a portrait of North Korea's late leader Kim Jong Il in Pyongyang on December 17, the first anniversary of Kim's death. (Reuters/Kyodo)
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A woman shields her face while braving the abnormally freezing outdoors in the Siberian city of Novosibirsk, about 2,800 kilometers east of Moscow. The temperatures in Novosibirsk dropped to minus 35 Celsius. (AFP/Valery Titievsky)
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The team from Montenegro celebrates after winning the women's European handball championship final match against Norway at the Kombank Arena in Belgrade. (Reuters/Marko Djurica)
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Smoke rises from the chimneys of a heating plant at Berlin's Brandenburg Willy Brandt airport in Schoenefeld, Germany. (AFP/Patrick Pleul)
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U.S. President Barack Obama prays during a vigil held at Newtown High School for the families of victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Connecticut. The shooting, in which 20 elementary school students and six adults were shot dead, was one of the deadliest such incidents in the nation's history. (Reuters/Kevin Lamarque)
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Rachel Pullen (center) kisses her son Landon DeCecco at a memorial for victims of the fatal school shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut.
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A NATO soldier walks past the site of an explosion in Kabul. A bombing in the Afghan capital killed one person and wounded 15 on December 17. (Reuters/Omar Sobhani)
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The Soyuz TMA-07M spacecraft is transported to its launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The Soyuz spacecraft, which will carry U.S. astronaut Thomas Marshburn, Russian cosmonaut Roman Romanenko, and Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield, is scheduled to fly to the International Space Station on December 19. (Reuters/Sergei Remezov)
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A soldier of the Armed Forces of Bosnia and Herzegovina takes aim during an exercise near Banja Luka. The drill, which tests soldiers on conquering a territory and rescuing the wounded from a war zone, is the final one for the basic officer trainee course. (Reuters/Dado Ruvic)
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Afghanistan -- A girl walks in a snow-covered cemetery in Kabul, 18Dec2012